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TED isn’t a cult. Here’s what attendees actually believe
“Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol - as embodied by TED talks - is a recipe for civilisational disaster" wrote...
Internet (of Things) ethics
“The ‘Internet of Things’ needs to be better managed from an ethical standpoint, says an article in European Business Review co-authored by Professor David De...
10
Feb 2016
About Facebook anxiety
“there remain plenty of Facebook detractors. The Kernel shone a baleful light on “Facebook anxiety” comparing the experience of flicking through the curated feeds of...
02
Feb 2016
Some Buckminster Fuller Bottom Lines (via BrainPickings)
“Fuller then moves on to the vital distinction between money-work and purpose, debunking the myth of the zero-sum game of prosperity:It is also mistakenly assumed...
31
Jan 2016
What does it mean to be human in the age of technology? (Tom Chatfield – The Guardian)
“This is an astonishing, disconcerting, delightful thing: the crowd in the cloud becoming a stream of shared consciousness.We think of ourselves as individual, rational minds,...
26
Jan 2016
Digital Ethics: The role of the CIO in balancing the risks and rewards of digital innovation
“What is digital ethics?In our hyper-connected world, an explosion of data is combining with pattern recognition, machine learning, smart algorithms, and other intelligent software to...
24
Jan 2016
Stop Being A Loner, It’ll Kill You: low social interaction has worse effects than obesity
“This paper mirrors the results of a 2013 study from Brigham Young University, which found that "low social interaction has the equivalent lifespan impact as...
19
Jan 2016
Meet the digital dissenters: They’re fighting for a better internet. Made me think
“Where do humans fit into this new economy? Really not as creators of value, but as the content. We are the content. We are the...
16
Jan 2016
What if the Internet Really Isn’t Social? What If It’s the Opposite? (asks Jason Gots)
“Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale who primarily studies alcohol and drug addiction says that “some people have posited that the Internet is a vehicle...
14
Jan 2016
A Taste of the Future: good read by Kim Araz (work, automation and IoT)
“The fact is that sooner than we can imagine, there will be masses of educated people suddenly finding themselves out of a job, no longer...
14
Jan 2016
How Facebook Makes Us Dumber – confirmation bias is a huge issue on large social networks
“As Del Vicario and her coauthors put it, “users mostly tend to select and share content according to a specific narrative and to ignore the...
13
Jan 2016
Will we see Human-Animal Chimeras soon (must read by MIT Technology Review)
“The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur...
08
Jan 2016
Rushkoff on the future of work, automation and the economic OS
“we may come to see that the values of the industrial economy are not failing under the pressures of digital technology. Rather, digital technology is...
08
Jan 2016
The Internet of Things is already here—just not the way you expected (#futuristgerd quoted)
“Gerd Leonhard, CEO of the Futures Agency, believes companies chasing user information “will never want less data from us, and they will find it impossible...
04
Jan 2016
Techno-social engineering: will humans become ‘pervasively programmable’? Scott Allan Morrison via Boing Boing
“Scott Allan Morrison: There would be nothing inherently wrong with this if we could be absolutely certain the companies that control this technology will act...
27
Dec 2015
Marc Andreessen on the IoT: ‘In 20 years, every physical item will have a chip implanted in it’
I tend to agree but don't know if this world will be heaven or hell - what to you think ? “Andreessen is a fierce...
26
Dec 2015
The US government vs Apple and Google’s: the smartphone encryption discussion
“The US government and police officials are in the midst of a misleading PR offensive to try to scare Americans into believing encrypted cellphones are somehow a...
19
Dec 2015
What the world will be like in 2045, according to DARPA’s top scientists (via business insider)
I tend to agree on these predictions - but I really worry about all these changes being driving by the military on the one side,...
